Margaret of Sweden, Queen of Norway

Margaret of Sweden, Queen of Norway (1155-1209) was Queen consort of Norway from 1189 to 1202 as the wife of Sverre of Norway.

Biography
Margaret was the daughter of Eric IX of Sweden and Christina Bjornsdotter, and she married King Sverre of Norway in 1189. She became the lover of the noble Gisle, who believed that the Birkebeiners were a lost cause, and opposed her husband. In 1202, her husband Sverre died under suspicious circumstances, and Margaret returned to Sweden, abandoning her daughter Christina of Norway. In 1204, she poisoned her stepson Haakon III of Norway, and she died in 1209.